Technical description
This is the first version of the milling weather motif in Astrup's artistic production. In 1916 he repeated the motif in the painting Milling Weather (K125), and in the woodcut series Milling Weather (Greve 39) from 1917. In the newer versions the motif is reversed, so that the man and the boy come in from the right. The format and the similarity in motif may suggest that Astrup has used the first version as a template for the woodcuts, but it is unclear how the motif was transferred to the key block for printing. Because of the artist’s interest in photography and developing glass plate negatives, the transference via enlargement or copying techniques is hypothetically possible.
A comparison with one of Astrup's photographs, which is an enlargement of the crown of a tree, may suggest that shoots from the tree trunk to the right was painted after a photographic template. In the photograph the top of the tree’s crown is missing – corresponding to the part that “grows out of “ the stumps in the painting.
The painting has vertical crazing across the entire surface of the picture, which indicates that it had been rolled up after it was completed.
Provenance
1902-n.d.:
Artist
Nikolai Astrup
(1880-1928)
-1945-1969:
Purchased at auction by
Jacob Fleischer d.e.
(1892-1969)
1969-1987-:
By descent, to
Private owner
-1990-1994-:
Purchased by
Private owner
-1994-2005:
Privately purchased by
Private owner
Exhibition history
Solo exhibition
1994-9-17 - 1994-11-13
Nikolai Astrup. Tradisjon og overskridelse
Oslo
Catalogue number 9
See exhibition
1995-3-18 - 1995-5-7
Nikolai Astrup. Tradisjon og overskridelse
Bergen
Catalogue number 9
See exhibition
1995-5-15 - 1995-9-15
Nikolai Astrup. Tradisjon og overskridelse
Jølster
Catalogue number 9
See exhibition
2005-1-15 - 2005-2-27
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Tønsberg
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2005-3-11 - 2005-5-1
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Drammen
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2005-5-24 - 2005-8-14
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Bergen
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2005-8-28 - 2005-10-23
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Stavanger
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2005-11-6 - 2006-1-1
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Trondheim
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2006-2-11 - 2006-3-26
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Kristiansand
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2006-5-20 - 2006-8-13
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Jølster
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2006-8-26 - 2006-10-1
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Notodden
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2006-10-14 - 2006-12-30
Nikolai Astrup. Tilhørighet og identitet
Lillehammer
Catalogue number [no]
See exhibition
2016-10-2 - 2017-1-22
Nikolai Astrup: Norwegen. Eine Entdeckung
Emden
Catalogue number 65
See exhibition
Group exhibition
Bibliography
Stiftelsen Modums Blaafarveværk (ed.). Nikolai Astrup 1880–1928. Modum: [s.n.], 1987.
Loge, Øystein. Nikolai Astrup: tradisjon og overskridelse. [Høvikodden]: Henie-Onstad kunstsenter, 1994.
